shadowiness

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Noun
  • Olson raised concerns about the vagueness and enforceability of the law — an issue law enforcement brought forward when GOP lawmakers introduced the bill during this year’s legislative session.
    Becca Savransky, Idaho Statesman, 16 June 2026
  • Or perhaps the vagueness stems from casting a mish-mash of Thai, Indonesian, Vietnamese, Chinese and American actors.
    Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2026
Noun
  • As Raul grapples with telling the story of Elsa’s life, he’s confronted by the murkiness of borrowing from real people for the purposes of fiction.
    Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 19 May 2026
  • After Daniel Jones tore his ACL late last season, the quarterback position has some murkiness for the Colts entering 2026.
    Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 May 2026
Noun
  • To remove the ambiguity and resulting food waste, Assembly Bill 660 was signed into law and goes into effect July 1, which ultimately will reduce the phrases allowed on packages to just two.
    Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2026
  • Implications for Michigan's anti-terrorism law The Hopkinson case highlighted ambiguity in Michigan's anti-terrorism law.
    Paula Wethington, CBS News, 25 June 2026
Noun
  • The second half, which dips into profundity and sentimentality while not always hitting the mark per Ryan, will be a harder sell for the audience that the film‘s opening sequences (and its marketing) attracts.
    Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 19 June 2026
  • Virginie Efira and Tao Okamoto let a day’s stroll linger into profundity, the twilight dimming and human connection brewing in all its possibilities.
    Joshua Rothkopf, Los Angeles Times, 22 May 2026
Noun
  • What The Dark Wizard does differently is grapple with Potter’s impenetrability without being able to resolve it, and consider how that indecision might change our perceptions of his life and his May 2015 death while BASE jumping in Yosemite.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 7 May 2026
  • Byrne is generous with his time and attention, but there’s also a Warholian air of mystery about him—a gentle impenetrability, a feeling of separateness.
    Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • This allows the robot to operate autonomously in complete darkness, harsh sunlight, and rapidly changing lighting conditions while maintaining accurate mapping, obstacle detection, and path planning for uninterrupted inspections and patrols.
    Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 26 June 2026
  • The most beautiful of all the zodiacal constellations is now visible, low toward the south-southeast as darkness falls.
    Joe Rao, Space.com, 26 June 2026
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“Shadowiness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shadowiness. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.

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